Congressman Glenn Grothman, who introduced the bill, said that in some cases, these criminal citizens have gone on to commit other crimes after their release.
"For instance, China refused to accept a criminal Chinese citizen after he was arrested for assault and ordered deported. The criminal alien stayed in the US and later murdered the same woman he assaulted," he said.
The bill also requires the Department of Homeland Security to submit a report to Congress once a year that lists the countries refusing to allow their criminal citizens to return.
"My bill shifts our immigration system back in the right direction and halts America's condoning of this bad behaviour," he said.
The US currently has tens of thousands of criminal immigrants that are ordered deported, yet their home countries refuse to take them back.
Instead, these criminal immigrants are released back into the US, posing a threat to American citizens, his office said.
Currently, the US is planning to send USD 36.5 billion in Foreign Aid in Fiscal Year 2017 - a portion of which is sent to these countries that refuse to take back their criminal immigrants.
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